_An especiall Medicine for all manner of Poyson_.
Take _Hemp seed_, dry it very well, and get off the husks, and
beat the _Hemp seed_ into fine powder, take _Mintes_ also, dry them,
and make them into powder, boyle a spoonfull of either of these
in halfe a pint of _Goats_ milk, a pretty while, then put the milk into
a cup to coole, and put into it a spoonfull of _Treacle_, and stir
them together till it be coole enough, then drink it in the morning
fasting, and eat nothing till noon, or at least two hours; doe
the like at night, and use it so three dayes, and it will kill and overcome
any poyson.
_Doctor_ Lewin's _Unguentum Rosatum, good
for the heat in the Back._
Take a certain quantity of _Barrowes_ grease; Oyle of sweet _Almonds_,
and _Rose-water_, either red or damask, of each a like quantity,
but of neither so much as of the _Hoggs_ grease, beat them together
to an Oyntment, put it in some gally pot, and when you would use it,
heat it, and therewith annoynt the Back and Reins.
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_Of Beanes._
_To defend Humours._
Take _Beanes_, the rinde or the upper skin being pul'd off, bruise
them, and mingle them with the white of an Egg, and make
it stick to the temples, it keepeth back humours flowing to the
Eyes.
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